Justice

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Bible verses about “Justice”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Exodus 23:1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
• Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
• Exodus 23:3Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
• Exodus 23:6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
• Exodus 23:7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
• Exodus 23:8And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
• Leviticus 19:13Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
• Leviticus 19:14Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord.
• Leviticus 19:15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
• Deuteronomy 16:18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
• Deuteronomy 16:19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
• Deuteronomy 16:20That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
• Deuteronomy 25:1If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
• Deuteronomy 25:2And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
• Deuteronomy 25:3Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
• Deuteronomy 25:4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
• Ezra 7:26And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
• Psalms 72:1Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.
• Psalms 72:2He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
• Psalms 82:2How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
• Psalms 82:3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
• Psalms 82:4Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Proverbs 17:15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.
• Proverbs 17:26Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
• Proverbs 18:5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
• Proverbs 18:17He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
• Proverbs 20:8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
• Proverbs 22:27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
• Proverbs 24:23These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
• Proverbs 28:21To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
• Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh from the Lord.
• Ecclesiastes 3:16And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
• Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
• Ecclesiastes 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
• Ecclesiastes 7:7Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
• Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
• Isaiah 56:1Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
• Isaiah 59:14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
• Isaiah 59:15Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
• Jeremiah 22:1Thus saith the Lord; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,